“If you look at the leads he was doing and when he was doing them, he kind of innovated a lot of that stuff”: Slayer’s Kerry King names metal’s most overlooked guitarist

Kerry King in 2024.

Slayer’s Kerry King has named the most “overlooked” guitar player in metal.

The 60-year-old makes his pick while listing his top five guitarists of all time. Talking on the Lipps Service With Scott Lipps podcast, he names Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, Van Halen’s Eddie Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne player Zakk Wylde and his personal “favourite”, Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest.